A program that has helped train biomedical scientists in Latin America will expand to parts of Europe through a new $1.05 million grant by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Students and teachers throughout the U.S. and Canada learn about science's successes, shortcomings and promising new discoveries in combating infections from Donald E. Ganem and B. Brett Finlay, in the 1999 Holiday Lectures on Science.

Medical schools and research institutions in 24 states will receive $12.7 million in grants from HHMI to enrich science education in local schools and help attract a broad range of students to biomedical careers.

Laura Poling unfazed by the sudden attention on the controversy around an article published in the February 12, 1999 issue of the journal Science, which challenges the fossil record by concluding that turtles, not birds, are the closest living relatives of crocodiles.